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Illegal Search Precludes Policeman's Qualified Immunity; Affirms Plaintiff's Summary Judgment by The U.S. Southern District Court of New York determined that a police Sergeant was not entitled to qualified immunity for an unreasonable strip search. Nicole Sarnicola was arrested for suspicion of dealing drugs and was taken to the Tarrytown …
Article • May 15, 2007
Visitor has Right to Due Process Hearing Before Termination of Visit Privileges by The Oregon Court of Appeals has held that a visitor, who had her privilege to visit her husband permanently revoked after he was found with a balloon full of marijuana in his rectum in a post visit …
No Qualified Immunity for Mental Hospital Strip Searches by The individual plaintiff was subjected to a strip and body cavity search on his voluntary admission to a civilian mental hospital pursuant to a standing order applicable specifically to him. Disability Advocates, Inc., a PAMII organization, is also a plaintiff. The …
Catheterizing Motorist for Urine Sample Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff alleged that he ran out of gas and Sheriff's deputies took him to a hospital and requested he submit to a urine analysis; when he could not urinate with a room full of people watching him, the deputies tackled him …
RI Enjoined from Indiscriminate Strip Searches by A federal district court in Rhode Island entered declaratory relief that held that the Rhode Island Department of Corrections' policy on strip and visual body cavity searches was unconstitutional as applied to pre arraignment detainees where no prior determination of reasonable suspicion has …
New Mexico: $50,000 Settlement For False Arrest, Unconstitutional Strip Search by In the week of January 1, 2001, a lawsuit alleging false arrest and an unconstitutional strip search in retaliation for supporting a particular candidate for district attorney settled for $50,000. In 1999, while attending Gallup High School, Emily Ellison …
Article • May 15, 2007
Canadian Court Awards Female Prisoner $10,000 For Illegal Search by In the week of January 23, 2006, the Federal Court of Canada awarded $10,000 to a female prisoner who was subjected to an illegal body cavity search at the Grand Valley women's prison. Upon returning to Grand Valley after spending …
Article • May 15, 2007
Rectal Probe Searches Require Reasonable Suspicion by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed as frivolous a Kansas prisoner's lawsuit that he was subjected to a digital rectal probe. The appeals court reversed, holding that prison officials must have reasonable, …
No Qualified Immunity for Rectal Searches by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit upheld the denial of qualified immunity to Washington prison officials who bad promulgated a policy requiring that all prisoners in Intensive Management Units (IMU) be subjected to digital, rectal probes by prison medical staff. Thousands …
Article • May 15, 2007
Damage Award Upheld in Vaginal Search by The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit upheld a damage award of $4,000 to a Virginia prisoner who forcibly had her vagina searched by male and female guards for matches. Lower court held search was otherwise reasonable, but not with male guards …
Article • May 15, 2007
Rectal Search Requires Reasonable Suspicion by The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit vacated the criminal conviction of a federal prisoner in Oklahoma, holding the prison warden lacked "reasonable suspicion" to order a rectal search of the prisoner. The warden also failed to follow BOP regulations outlining the procedure …
Article • May 15, 2007
Arizona Statue of Limitations Tolled Until Prisoner Knows of or Should Have Known of Right to Bring Suit by Arizona Statue of Limitations Tolled Until Prisoner Knows of or Should Have Known of Right to Bring Suit The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Arizona law tolls the statute …
New York County and Sheriff Liable For Illegal Strip/Body Cavity Search by A New York woman filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after being arrested on misdemeanor charges and subjected to a strip/body cavity search at the jail. A U.S. district court granted Respondents' motion for summary judgment, 630 …
$4,000 Injury Award for Body Cavity Search by The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada held that anal body cavity searches conducted on two Nevada prisoners were not unconstitutional but that a subsequent cavity search of one of the prisoners was, and that the associate warden was liable …
Kansas Strip-Search Suit Subject to Three-Year Statute of Limitation by Shawn McCormick was arrested in Lawrence Kansas where police subjected him to a strip search and a body cavity search. More than two years later, but less than three, he filed suit in state court under KSA § 22-2523, claiming …
Qualified Immunity for Body Cavity Search of Prison Guard by The plaintiff correctional employee was subjected to a visual body cavity search after a prisoner informant said that the employee was going to smuggle in some drugs in a tampon. Conducting the search was within the outer perimeter of the …
Qualified Immunity for Sex Offender Cavity Searches by The plaintiff sex offenders alleged that they were harassed because of their status and were subject to retaliatory body cavity searches. Injunctive relief was not appropriate because there was no allegation that the misconduct was ongoing. Declaratory relief is inappropriate for the …
9/11 Immigration Detainee Challenges Denial of Counsel, Religious Diet by The plaintiff was arrested on September 12, 2001, on the belief that he was connected with the 9/11 hijackers, and transferred to a federal prison, where he was subjected to a visual body cavity search viewed by multiple male and …
Seventh Circuit Rejects Total Exhaustion Rule for § 1983 Complaints by Bob Williams Seventh Circuit Rejects Total Exhaustion Rule for § 1983 Complaints by Bob Williams The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated the dismissal of a prisoners amended complaint, finding prior exhaustion putting the state …
CSC Alien Abuse Class Action Settled for $2.5 Million by On August 10, 2005, a federal court in New Jersey approved a settlement in Brown v. Esmor Correctional Services Inc., USDC No. 98-1282 (DNJ). Esmor Correctional Services Inc. (Esmor) later known as Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), agreed to pay the …
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